Tomitaro Horii

Tomitaro Horii (7 November 1890-23 November 1942) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Biography
Tomitaro Horii was born on 7 November 1890 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and he served in the Shanghai Expeditionary Army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1937, he was promoted to Colonel, and he briefly served as Governor of Guam in 1941 after it was seized from the United States. In 1942, Horii was sent with the IJA 55th Infantry Division to invade New Guinea and advance on Port Moresby, but his divison was delayed by Australian forces in the Kokoda Trail campaign, and his army later went on the defensive in September 1942. Horii was killed when his canoe swept out of the flooded Kumusi River and into the sea, where it capsized.